GRADUATION MESSAGE OF SECRETARY OF EDUCATION My warmest greetings and congratulations to the graduates and complters of the School Year 2019-2020. Graduation and moving up ceremonies are significant occasions for the graduates and completing learners as these mark the milestone of your educational achievement. May these occasions inspire you to study harder for the fulfillment of your dreams and aspirations. Life may constantly offer you challenges, but you have to forge on. I salute the teachers, our unsung heroes, for molding the minds of our Filipino youth and producing among these learners the much-needed knowledge and competences under the K-12 Basic Education Program. Hours mae be long and prescribed duties may be exhausting, but shaping the future of these youth will definitely improve their lives. To the parents, we thank you for your sacrifices in attending to the needs of your children. Your guidance and support have helped build their confidence in themselves. You have exerted a powerful influence on their overall development. The theme of this year’s end-of-school rites (EOSR),” Sulong Edukalidad: Championing the Nation’s Future is consistent with the Department’s call for national effort toward quality basic education. DepEd is commited to providing you with 21st century skills through the delivery of quality , accessible, relevant ,and liberating basic education. We continuously strive to institute reforms in our educational system to ensure that you become globally competitive and able to meet the demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Again, congratulations! Sama-sama tayo sa pagsulong ng Edukalidad! Mabuhay! GRADUATION MESSAGE OF SCHOOL PRINCIPAL My heartfelt Congratulations to all Senior High School graduates of School Year 2019 – 2020. I know how excited and delighted you all are for the culmination of your high school life. Six years of your hard work, perseverance, and determination deserves to be celebrated. Indeed, it is a joyful moment to have witnessed this significant experience of your lives. This year’s graduation theme is “Sulong EduKalidad: Pagtataguyod sa Kinabukasan (Sulong EduKalidad: Championing the Nation’s Future)” This theme highlights the important role of quality education in helping Filipino learners achieve their full potential in order to fulfill their dreams and contribute meaningfully to nation – building. Indeed, we are certain that you have been equipped by your teachers with lifelong skills that would surely lead you in fulfilling and achieving your aspirations that I am sure would eventually make you significant contributors to our nation-building. Dear graduates, your diploma is a manifestation of you valuing your education. Make use of it! Reach for your dreams, Persevere and Act significantly! Furthermore, our warmest congratulations also to your parents and teachers. This success would not be attained without the love, guidance, and support in all forms of your parents, guardians, and teachers. Again, Congratulations and we wish you all the best for your future! God bless you all! MILDRED G. CLEMENTE Principal II ASSISTANT SCHOOL PRINCIPAL MESSAGE Dear 2018-2019 Graduates, Another school year has come to its end; with it is the reaping of everything you have diligently sown. I congratulate you, your parents, teachers and beloved Alma Mater for another milestone. Every contributing feature of your success today deserves its corresponding recognition, gratitude and accolade for without them, this day would’ve not come, an essential thing all of us should never forget. This day, however jubilant, is not yet the end of your journey but the beginning of another essential stage, a transition necessary for one’s advancement in the arena of life. But, let not your heart and determined will diminish with future uncertainties and worries, instead feel fortunate because these additional years would prepare and equip you with necessary skills that is exceedingly required of you by the demands of the modern world. As such, the government has prepared you with the curriculum that would be the answer to the growing problem of jobs mismatch that is the primary cause of the unemployment today. The country’s future is at your hands and depends on every decision you make especially for our local community. Learn more craft and add more bucket of patience, interest, willpower, and love to whatever good you do. Live not in oblivion and strive to improve yourselves for only through these that success is truly achieved. Aside from the revelries and all forms of celebrations that would follow, let us also remember what our theme enshrines today: “Sulong EduKalidad: Pagtataguyod sa Kinabukasan (Sulong EduKalidad: Championing the Nation’s Future)”, an essential fact in establishing a stable and progressive community. Let us celebrate this unity in our everyday lives and continue to boast its fruit of unhindered progress and inevitable milestones the future has yet to reveal. Once again, my felicitations! DISTRICT SUPERVISOR MESSAGE I would like to express my warmest greetings to the completers and graduates of School Year 2019-2020! I know that you have waited for this time to come and I am glad that you have finally endured the race and ended up victorious at this moment. It was not easy but you successfully managed all the challenges that life threw for the past years. This is the time to celebrate your achievements and to thank your parents and family , your teachers , fellow learners and stakeholders in school who have helped you in one way or the other to reach this line but above all give thanks to the Lord for all the blessings and guidance. Whatever path you will pursue, may you continue to uphold the values of your alma mater. Take with you all the knowledge and skills you have acquired in school as you journey through life. Keep working hard because this is just the beginning of the many challenges and future successes. We will stumble along the way, but our failures or mistakes in the direction of our lives are meant for us to learn from and become better. As you carve your path keep believing in yourselves for you are capable in turning your dreams of success in life into a reality. Never stop trying. Never stop learning. Give nothing but your best. Again, congratulations Batch 2019-2020! I wish you all the best in your future endeavor. FLORIFES A. COLMENARES, EdD Public Schools District Supervisor MAYOR’S MESSAGE Republic of the Philippines Province of Davao Oriental MUNICIPALITY OF BANAYBANAY OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL MAYOR MESSAGE Congratulations, Dear Graduates! The time for you to move your tassels from one side to another has finally come, your brilliant achievement.... Your most awaited Graduation! This is now your starting point , the beginning of the beautiful journey to the future. Although it may have seemed to you that the additional two years of your stay in the high school was a burden and added expenses, these two years have seemed unnoticed because while they have gone by in just a blink of an eye , yet you have learned many great things to prepare you to our next destination. While working in your senior years , you have already building your dreams so continue to work for them until those dreams are realized. Never settle for the second best but your fullest and your best. Always remember that with the training given to you by your school , you can achieve whatever it is you want to be. Aim to the highest of your hopes and row hard to open all the windows of opportunities. Steer yourself towards the best direction. Decide where to go. And when that time comes, wear your best smile of success. With your brilliance and being ambitious , you are on the right path to earn many more achievements since you were made for great things. Congratulations also to the parents who have continuously supported their children. As parents , seeing our children successful in their children. As parents, seeing our children successful in their studies and in their lives is one of our treasures and seeing them succeed through thick and thin, you have successfully done your responsibilities. For your efforts , you also deserve to be congratulated. To the faculty and officials of this school , I salute you for opening wide your doors to mentor these students. You have prepared them for future , providing them knowledge about life , making them better persons than they first entered the portals of your school. You have held them to high standards , pushing them to do their best. You are a great influence to these students creating a huge impact in their young lives. To all of you, celebrate this occasion with a great blast of joy. Once more, congratulations! ADALIA CABALLERO LOPEZ, MPA-GA Municipal Mayor